Teodoro Cottrau

Teodoro Cottrau (7 December 1827 – 30 March 1879) was an Italian composer, lyricist, publisher, journalist and politician.

[1] He specialised in "folksy" Neapolitan songs.

[2] His arrangement of "Santa Lucia" was published in 1850 and recorded among others by Enrico Caruso and Elvis Presley.

[3] Cottrau was the son of French composer and musicologist Guillaume Louis Cottrau.

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